The Morning Post of Tuesday contains a most striking and
important article entitled "The Army and Ulster." It tells the story of the naval and military coup d'etat which was prepared by the Government, or a section of the Govern- ment, but failed through the unwillingness of the officers at the Curragh to shed the blood of their fellow-citizens. That story we cannot summarize to-day, but we hope to return to it at a later date. Meanwhile we may say that the Morning Post in its leading columns vouches for the authenticity of the story. This story shows that, whatever may have been the motives of the Government—it is almost impossible to gauge motives in such cases—the impression was given to the officers at the Curragh that the Government were about to embark upon active operations of a very serious nature, operations in which no less than twenty-five thousand troops were to be engaged, including a division to be sent from England and bodies of bluejackets and marines.
